We are writing to log our views against building housing developments north and south of Brays Lane. I think the perfect location to build houses is the site off Hall road. This is near to Rochford primary school and is within distance of The King Edmund School and very close proximity to Rochford Train station. There is also minimal distance to the A127.

If you build on the land north of Brays Lane, I think it will be extremely difficult to have a definite defensible green belt boundary line for the remaining green belt Land. You would have the issue of more pedestrians crossing Brays Lane. This is a fatal accident waiting to happen.


Brays lane is an extremely busy road, with Juggernaut lorries continuously travelling up and down the road. You have the sewerage lorries, the steel and timber lorries plus the occasional boat too.

I understand that Essex highways believe that the current infrastructure can cope with additional cars but I don't believe it can, neither do I believe that just by changing the layout of the roads, like Ashingdon Road will this ease the congestion. It is already bad now, in the mornings from 7.30 - 9.00 and 2.00- 4.00 when the schools open and close.

I have seen a suggestion for the bus entrance in Brays Lane for The King Edmund School and I do not believe that was user friendly either. The bus entrance should be well away from the residential area and have space for 8 buses to wait together. The buses arrive at 1.30 p.m. with their engines running for that period of time until 2.15 when they leave. They usually arrive together and the proposed drop off would not accomdate this and the buses would end up stacking up the resdential road which would cause futher problems.

I really do think that the housing should be placed off of the Hall Road option and the brays lane entrance should be left alone.